A choice small size table having falling leaves, the oval top above straight skirt retaining original drawer:
the frame joining block, mirrored vase, and ring turned legs which are joined by similarly turned robust
stretchers. The table rests on original feet. Any minor imperfections commensurate with age and use.
(Height: 27.25"; top leaves up: 36 x 46.5"; top leaves down: 36 x 14.75")

This example closely related to a table that purportedly belonged to Abraham Ten Broeck (1734-1810) of Albany, New York.

The turning sequence on the support legs display Baroque vigorâ€¦the legs on these tables generally follow a vocabulary of four templates; stacked balusters, such as found on this example, single baluster, opposing balusters, and baluster above a ball flanked by reels.

For additional information on related tables see Peter M. Kenny, "Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York's Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves", American Furniture 1994, edited by Luke Beckerdite, (Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 1994), pages 106-35. Also, Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Early Colonial Period: the Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pages 159-61, number 65. The author states that there are perhaps only two dozen of these tables known to be extant.
(Excellent original condition; as is typically the case, the hinges were changed during the tables working life.)

The nearly square top measures 33.75" x 34" when open; when closed 33.75 by only
12”, the height is an appropriate 27”. The top with pinched corners is on a carved and
shaped apron joining cabriole legs resting on pad feet. The leaves hang straight, overall
excellent condition; one hinge likely replaced.

Provenance: Gustave J. S. White, Inc., Portsmouth, Rhode Island; sold to John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; sold to E. Martin Wunsch, New York; sold to a private collection, by 2006.

A beautifully proportioned table of oval shape; the falling leafs are tongue-and-groove and are attached by original butterfly hinges; delicate tapered legs joined by plain apron. Full coverage and original grain paint. (H: 28.5"; top leaves down: 36.5 by 11.75"; top leaves up: 36.5 by 40")

The folding top with carved edges, ponds and candle wells above a conforming apron with applied molding is raised on square legs with chamfered inside corners; legs and apron joined by corner brackets. The fly-rail conceals a small game-pieces-drawer.
(Very good condition; good wood, old surface; retains glue blocks; slight lift to proper right front corner. H: 29", top closed: 33 by 16", top open: 33 by 32")

The top with drop-leafs having rounded corners on ogee aprons is raised on a lyre/vasiform pedestal resting on molded scrolled base with casters.
(H: 29.25": top leaves down: 41.25 by 21": top leaves up: 41.25 by 47.75")

(Old, possibly original surface, slight shrinkage to top causing drop-leafs to rest against knees of legs thusly causing slight outward angle when closed; top is flat when open; no cupping; H: 27.25", top with leaves down: 53 by 14", top with leaves up: 53 by 51.5")

(Very good condition with minor imperfections being consistent with age; tight shrinkage fissure in one leaf expertly glued, and difficult to see; one hinge is an early replacement, old, possibly original surface; thin leather-pads added to bottoms of feet accommodating for wear; replaced glue blocks, else fine. H: 27.5", top open: 38 by 39.5", top closed: 12 by 39.5")

The rectangular top with batten ends on a plain apron with single long drawer; the whole raised on double tapered legs. The top with green sponge painted decoration; the base in brown paint; period brass in original borings. This piece remains in excellent condition with only typical paint losses to surfaces of top as depicted. (H: 28"; top (open): 35.75 by 39"; top (closed): 17.75 by 39".)

A generously proportioned drop-leaf table with falling demilune leaves, the top retaining original hinges on plain apron raised on vigorous and refined mirror-image baluster turnings separated by rings, and joined by similarly turned stretchers; the gates also similarly turned; original feet. The top with traces or original red displays a rich patina and surface history, and slightly cupped at center; base retains nearly all original red paint; dry surface with great patina. The drawer has been missing for a very long time, all else fine. (Dimensions: 28" H, 42 by 17" top with leaves down, 42 by 50.25" top with leaves up.)

Original oval top on plain apron with drawer raised on block, baluster and reel turned legs joined by similarly turned stretchers; original feet. Approximately one-quarter of outside edge of leaf is an old replacement, warping to top; undisturbed hinges. (Dimensions: 26.5" High, 32.75 by 11.5" top; 32.75 by 43" open top.)

Rectangular top with breadboard ends on plain apron with single long drawer raised on baluster turned legs joined by box stretcher. This table has survived in good surface and with original feet; imperfections include a replaced breadboard, restoration to top at rear left corner. Dimensions: 25.5" H, 25 by 41.75" top.

An extremely narrow top with oval falling leaves on baluster turned legs raised on shoe feet joined by similarly turned stretcher; the gate-legs on button feet. The table has be refinished and is ready for pigmented wax; one turned foot and the bottom of one shoe-foot have been restored. (Dimensions: 26.75" H, 30.25 by 4.5" top when closed, 30.25 by 29.25" top when open.)

107-113 - SOLD

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